+Cc Ferruh
06/11/2018 22:48, Stephen Hemminger:
> Using access followed by open causes a static analysis warning
> about Time of check versus Time of use. Also, access() and
> open() have different UID permission checks.
>
> This is not a serious problem; but easy to fix by using errno instead.
>
> Coverity issue: 300870
> Fixes: 4a928ef9f611 ("bus/pci: enable write combining during mapping")
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org>
> ---
> drivers/bus/pci/linux/pci_uio.c | 11 +++++------
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/bus/pci/linux/pci_uio.c b/drivers/bus/pci/linux/pci_uio.c
> index 112ac51dddcc..8521fe63b0ae 100644
> --- a/drivers/bus/pci/linux/pci_uio.c
> +++ b/drivers/bus/pci/linux/pci_uio.c
> @@ -306,12 +306,11 @@ pci_uio_map_resource_by_index(struct rte_pci_device
> *dev, int res_idx,
> loc->domain, loc->bus, loc->devid,
> loc->function, res_idx);
>
> - if (access(devname, R_OK|W_OK) != -1) {
> - fd = open(devname, O_RDWR);
> - if (fd < 0)
> - RTE_LOG(INFO, EAL, "%s cannot be mapped. "
> - "Fall-back to non prefetchable mode.\n",
> - devname);
> + fd = open(devname, O_RDWR);
> + if (fd < 0 && errno != ENOENT) {
> + RTE_LOG(INFO, EAL, "%s cannot be mapped. "
> + "Fall-back to non prefetchable mode.\n",
> + devname);
> }
> }
